If you’re tempted to use genAI to brainstorm for writing stories, please just talk abt your story to friends instead! Friends who have good story sense that you trust, writer friends who will give you honest feedback, friends who care & get excited about your ideas with you! I know it’s scary +

Saying it for maybe the 50th time: Do not accuse someone of using AI unless you have ABSOLUTELY AIRTIGHT proof, because if not, you're just adding to the paranoia and causing stress for hard-working artists. And yes, going onto social media and going 'Hrrm, I've no proof, but...' is an accusation.

Stuck In Attic - Hocus Focus Out Now!@stuckinattic.bsky.social · 12h ago

We recently got accused of using AI for music in our game and, while it's disheartening, it encouraged me to make a thread about making music for games, what it takes, and why it can be heartbreaking to be accused or even suspected of something we detest. 🧵Long thread follows:

How does python keep surprising me with how powerful its object model is. I've worked with this language for over a decade and I just keep learning new things. Today's edition: the real power of classmethod, descriptors and __init_subclass__ and __set_name__ dunders.

this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

“Every 30 to 60 seconds, our revolutionary heads-up display will prompt wearers to slowly close and then reopen their eyes to create the illusion of natural blinking.” — Mark Zuckerberg

New Meta Glasses Feature Reminds Users To Blink To Appear Human

MENLO PARK, CA—Touting the new software update as a staggering innovation no other wearable technology could offer, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that Meta’s smart glasses would now remind u...

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This is bonkers

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2d ago

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

You should read my very talented lawyer who I am very grateful to have dropping truth nukes about my case!!

Remy Green (they/them)@remygreen.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is related to a wild ride of case (Mercante v. Tarzia). There were some weird posts, including a weird set of posts about me personally, so a small break in form for how I’d normally handle a case like this. I know some folks are watching this case, so, here you go.

Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. - Edsger W.Dijkstra, June 18th 1975

Hey friends, if you wanna support a game dev in the oft-lonely crusade against AI, please buy my games. I want to make many more, and I need time & money to do it, this would really help! #indiegames #gamedev #pixelart store.steampowered.com/app/1921550/... store.steampowered.com/app/3139060/...

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

What software do you hate most intensely? I would love to break my (learning management system) Canvas! I explain why in our new CSoC episode, this time on @gavinmueller.bsky.social's Breaking things at work; the book that explains why we should all be more critical of technology!

the more you resist it, too, the more likely you are to attract the kind of person who finds violating consent to be a fun and exciting challenge. and again, it only takes one copy getting out to make most of the effort in "stopping scraping" pointless. hence why i piss em off instead. works better

"Hi Molly, I'm [product name] — an AI platform, and full disclosure: no human wrote this email. That's kind of the point."

Marley Kkt Throwing Laptop Out of Window

Alt: Person throws laptop out second story window, where it smashes on the ground

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A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to go see a real solar eclipse in Spain. It was incredible. I had already added an eclipse to Race The Sun: Challenge Edition, but it felt wholly insufficient after seeing the real thing. So here's the new version.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

One of those "found you!" scenarios happens all the time with templates giving away classes whose RTTI got stripped but a collection type's didn't. Then that collection calls the type's constructor, giving you the vtable you can now associate with the correct class!

Seph De Busser@sephdebusser.bsky.social · 6d ago

Reverse engineering a binary with partial RTTI really gives a similar high to deduction games like type help, TR-49, roottrees,... "I know you have to exist, but *where are you*" at a base class' constructor/vtable/default-implementation functions. Such a high when you end up finding it!

If you make a slop "recomp" we're sending Scary Piano after you. Do not test us.

When my (then future) wife first came to live with me, I surprised her by hanging a portrait I drew of her in the kitchen, so it'd be the 1st thing she'd see when coming in. We've been together ever since. I've drawn a new portrait every 10 years since then. Happy 20th, кошка.

Pokémon Airship!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 6d ago

I love Minneapolis

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

Heads up, this labeler is not operating in good faith if this amount of evidence is not enough to cause them to remove the label

Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW@emoria.bsky.social · 7d ago

Here’s the absurdly exhaustive interrogation they put me through pt 1

i think my favorite xml crime was seeing <keyvaluepair><key>burp</key><value>fart</value></keyvaluepair>. like the platonic ideal of the overflowing tupperware cabinet in the "there has to be a better way!" commercial

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · last wk.

Tech execs do not have, like, a theory of mind for people who aren’t tech execs. If they did, they wouldn’t be so frequently baffled by how repulsive normal people think their whole deal is right now